barrel
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There’s hockey puck, lots of it: The rowdy U.S. women is barreling into the semifinals, and the NHL stars have finally returned to build a feisty U.S. men’s team.
East of Maracaibo lies the Orinoco Belt, home to the world’s largest proven deposits, estimated at more than 300 billion barrels.
From Los Angeles Times
Greenland contains over 31 billion barrels of oil equivalent of oil and natural gas, according to estimates by the US Geological Survey.
From Barron's
Venezuela pumped more than 3 million barrels of oil a day in the 1990s.
Russia’s main grade of crude, known as Urals, trades for around $45 a barrel, well below the international benchmark Brent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
